Horsehead-Marbella (Conanicut Island - Jamestown)
USA /
Rhode Island /
Jamestown /
Conanicut Island - Jamestown /
Highland Drive, 240
World
/ USA
/ Rhode Island
/ Jamestown
World / United States / Rhode Island
house, mansion / manor house / villa, Victorian (architecture)
In 1882 Joseph Wharton (d.1924), his brother Charles, and other friends purchased plots in Jamestown, Rhode Island, across the bay from Newport and built summer homes there. On his thirty acres, Wharton hired architect Charles Lovatt Bevins (1844-1925) to construct "Marbella", a large stone house with a prominent tower overlooking the entrance to Narragansett Bay. it was later inherited by his daughter Anna and her husband Harrison Smith Morris who called it "Horsehead" after a rock formation on the cliffs below that looked like the head of a horse from a certain angle.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsehead-Marbella
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 41°28'34"N 71°22'29"W
- J. B. Lippincott House 1.4 km
- 42 Knowles Court 2.4 km
- Shoreby Hill Club / Jamestown Casino (c. 1898) 2.5 km
- Charles H. Bailey Cottage (1890) 2.6 km
- James and Sadie K. Taussig Cottage (c. 1898) 2.7 km
- Margaret L. and Henry S. Potter Cottage / Red House (1898-9) 2.7 km
- Edmund F. and Emily C. Wickham Cottage (1898-99) 2.8 km
- Druidsdream 10 km
- President's House 13 km
- Land Otter Pass 13 km
- Fort Wetherill State Park 1 km
- Beavertail State Park 2.9 km
- Jamestown Golf Course, 9-holes 3.2 km
- Dutch Island / Fort Greble 3.5 km
- Wesquage Pond 4.3 km
- U.R.I. Narragansett Bay Campus 4.4 km
- Bonnet Shores Neighborhood 4.4 km
- Narrangansett Pier, Rhode Island 10 km
- Newport County, Rhode Island 14 km
- South Kingstown, Rhode Island 14 km
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